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1、福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿哈佛高校(Harvard University)，简称哈佛，坐落于美国马萨诸塞州剑桥市，是一所享誉世界的私立探讨型高校，是闻名的常春藤盟校成员。下面我共享了福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿，希望你喜爱。福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿英文版全文如下You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on
2、 June 12, 20xx.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it.
3、 No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a y
4、oung, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that
5、they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and t
6、hat my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as St
7、anford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my
8、 parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and b
9、egin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one goo
10、d meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the ca
11、mpus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space
12、between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we wer
13、e designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And s
14、ince Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots lo
15、oking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in somethin
16、g - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked
17、hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well,
18、 as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out.
19、And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with Da
20、vid Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had bee
21、n rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure a
22、bout everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated featu
23、re film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'
24、;m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved w
25、hat I did. You've got to find what you love.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
26、If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about deat
27、h.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If toda
28、y were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me m
29、ake the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid th
30、e trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors t
31、old me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thoug
32、ht you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an end
33、oscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare
34、 form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death wa
35、s a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of L
36、ife. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living some
37、one else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know wha
38、t you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his
39、 poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools a
40、nd great notionStewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you mig
41、ht find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for
42、 you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿中文版如下“好学若饥、谦卑若愚”福布斯说：很荣幸和大家一道参与这所世界上最好的一座高校的毕业典礼。我高校没毕业，说实话，这是我第一次离高校毕业典礼这么近。今日我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事，不讲别的，也不讲大道理，就讲三个故事。Jobs说，你必需要找到你所爱的东西。这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于20xx年6月12号在斯坦福高校的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。我今日很荣幸能和你们一起参与毕业典礼，斯坦福高校是世界上最好
43、的高校之一。我从来没有从高校中毕业。说实话,今日或许是在我的生命中离高校毕业最近的一天了。今日我想向你们讲解并描述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。我在Reed高校读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学确定之前,我还常常去学校。我为什么要退学呢?故事从我诞生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的,没有结婚的高校毕业生。她确定让别人收养我, 她非常想让我被高校毕业生收养。所以在我诞生的时候，她已经做好了一切的打算工作，能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到,当我诞生
44、之后,律师夫妇突然确定他们想要一个女孩。所以我的生养父母(他们还在我亲生父母的视察名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不当心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道:“当然!”但是我亲生母亲随后发觉，我的养母从来没有上过高校,我的父亲甚至从没有读过中学。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她肯定要让我上高校,那个时候她才同意。在十七岁那年,我真的上了高校。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福高校一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把全部积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所
45、在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道高校能帮助我找到怎样的答案。但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的全部积蓄。所以我确定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的确定。不能否认,我当时的确特别的胆怯, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个确定。在我做出退学确定的那一刻, 我最终可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫爱好的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在挚友房间的地板上面睡觉,我去捡5美分的可乐瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我须要走七英里的路程，穿过这个城市到Hare Krishna寺庙(注：位于纽约Brookl
46、yn下城),只是为了能吃上饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜爱这样。我跟着我的直觉和新奇心走, 遇到的许多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧：Reed高校在那时供应或许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个高校里面的每个海报, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是美丽的美术字。因为我退学了, 没有受到正规的训练, 所以我确定去参与这个课程，去学学怎样写出美丽的美术字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中变更空格的长度, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学恒久不能捕获到的、漂亮的、真实的艺术精妙, 我发觉那实在
47、是太奇妙了。当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中，似乎都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候,就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些家伙全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台运用了美丽的印刷字体的电脑。假如我当时没有退学, 就不会有机会去参与这个我感爱好的美术字课程, Mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。那么现在个人电脑就不会有现在这么奇妙的字型了。当然我在高校的时候，还不行能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来,但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不行能将这些片断串连起来;你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所
48、以你必需信任这些片断会在你将来的某一天串连起来。你必需要信任某些东西：你的志气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从来没有令我悲观(let me down),只是让我的生命更加地别出心裁而已。我的其次个故事是关于爱和损失的。我特别幸运, 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。Woz和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力, 十年之后, 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我们刚刚发布了最好的产品,那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年, 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢?
49、嗯,在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司, 在最初的几年,公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对将来的看法发生了分歧, 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不行开交的时候, 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候, 我被炒了。在这么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去, 这真是毁灭性的打击。在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我把从前的创业激情给丢了, 我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很懊丧。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce见面，并试图向他们致歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我慢慢发觉了曙光, 我仍旧宠爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有变更这些, 一点也没有。我被驱除了,但是我仍旧钟爱它。所以我确定从头再来。我